Get Excel sheet into temp table using a script

Question

Im trying to get this excel sheet into a table, so I can apply select statements to it etc, to update tables with its info.

SELECT * 
FROM OPENROWSET(\'Micro         


        

Answer 1

Just in case someone else stumbles upon this years later like I did, this is what worked for me:

We had a box that had SQL Server Express 2012 on a Windows 8 64 bit machine with no version of Office installed.

Here is part of my stored proc I setup:

INSERT INTO OPENROWSET ('Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0','Excel 12.0;Database=R:\Export Membership Database\Member_Export.xls;',
'SELECT * FROM [combined$]')

(the rest of the SELECT statement below this)

I received this error:

SQL Server blocked access to STATEMENT 'OpenRowset/OpenDatasource' of component 'Ad Hoc Distributed Queries' because this component is turned off as part of the security configuration for this server. A system administrator can enable the use of 'Ad Hoc Distributed Queries' by using sp_configure. For more information about enabling 'Ad Hoc Distributed Queries', search for 'Ad Hoc Distributed Queries' in SQL Server Books Online.

We changed the configuration:

sp_configure 'show advanced options', 1;
GO
RECONFIGURE;
GO
sp_configure 'Ad Hoc Distributed Queries', 1;
GO
RECONFIGURE;
GO

Ran the stored proc again and then got this error:

The OLE DB provider "Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0" has not been registered.

Found we needed to install this:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=c06b8369-60dd-4b64-a44b-84b371ede16d&displaylang=en

After that, worked like a charm!